| Yes JAH give thanks
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| And i have seen many homeless walk the streets
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| Yes with out shelter nuh clothes upon their back no food to eat
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| Then hear mi out
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| Oh yes
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| I have heard screaming from the poor oh yes
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| Someone please call the police
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| I have heard screaming from the poor
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| 1−1-9 alert then it’s a state of emergency
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| Awright den coo-yah now
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| Den check di condition di yutes dem living in
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| Ransackle board house, zinc fence and pit latrine
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| Hey poverty stress dem out some have dem big gun slinging
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| Uptown and living large dem neva cease from di killing
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| Den momma ban har belly and bawl
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| Upon di death toll shi hear har one son name guh call
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| Try some hustling guh put up a one stall
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| Here comes metro police awright oh yes
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| I have heard screaming from the poor oh yes
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| Someone please call the police
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| I have heard screaming from the poor
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| 1−1-9 alert we living in a state of emergency
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| Hear mi out
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| Den ghetto yutes be careful of dem pencil neck trickster
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| Hey fi a spit inna di bucket dem wi sell yuh fi di length a di dollar
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| Mouth full a lies dem a failure
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| RASTA burn out dem free paper
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| Den all dem good fa is to enslave the poor for cheap wages
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| Hey man son toiling for length of dayses
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| Education is so good but so expensive
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| Oh mi cyaant even find di monthly bills
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| I have heard screaming from the poor oh yes
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| Someone please call the police
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| I have heard screaming from the poor
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| 1−1-9 alert living in a state of emergency
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| Den tell mi a who boost di yutes and tun dem inna ruff neck
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| Gi dem big gun fi buss and mek dem a beat dem chest
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| Big house pretty cyar and nuff fanciness
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| Yuh gi dem drugs fi sell and den gi feds dem address
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| I see dat yuh nuh care about the homeless
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| Ghetto living is a day to day stress
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| Nuff yutes walk di streets confuse and perplex
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| They never know what coming up next
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| Yes yes
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| I have heard screaming from the poor oh yes
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| Someone please call the police
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| I have heard screaming from the poor
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| 1−1-9 alert living in a state of emergency |